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Letters .Patent No, 66,442, dated July 9, 1867.

IMPROVBD CLOTHES OR TOWEL-RACK.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Be it known that I, YF. A. BALOH, of Hingham, in the county of Sheboygamand State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Clothes or Towel-Racks and I do hereby declare the following to be a. full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention,

Figure 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional elevation of the same.

Figure is` a plan of the same.

My invention consists n'constructing folding clothes'bars with independent and permanent supports, by means of which the strain of supporting any article suspended from one of said bars may be transferred from the pivot-piu or bolt upon which they all move to a solid'aud permanent guide or ledge which will support the bar equally well in whatever position it may be placed.

That others may understand my invention, I will particularly describe it.

A A are the severa-l bars, upon which articles of clothing or otherwise are tobe placed for the purpose of drying them. B is the metallic head or frame by which the bars A. are suspended from a wall or other con venient surface. 'Projecting from the frame B are the tivo plates C D, parallel with each other and at right angles to the frame B.. The plates C D are located at a proper distance asunder to receive between them the thickness of the desired number ot bars A, which in an ordinary or average-sized implement may' number six or eight. Through the plates C and I) holes are made to receive the upper and lower ends of the pivot-bolt E, which is provided with ahead at one end and a screw-nut or its equivalent at theother, so as to retain it in its proper place. Between the plates C and D, and with regular intervals between them, are the curved ledges G G G, in number less by one than the number of bars. These ledges G are rigidly secured to the frame'B, and they admit between them the ends of the bars, as shofwn'in fig. 2, and they are of such extent or shape that the said ends will at all times-be between them.

The operation of my clothes-rack is as follows The frame B is attached tothe wall by screws through the holes b, which may be so shaped as .to permit the frame to be detached from them by raising it bodily a little distance, when the screw-heads will come opposite a portion of the hole enlarged sucicntly to permit them to pass through, When not in use the bars are all turned back against the wall, and in that position occupy so 'little space that they form no obstruction in the room. When desired one or more of them may be drawn out so as to permit articles to be suspended upon them, and whichever one is so drawn out, or to whatever distance it is drawn out, it willreceive the saule support from the ledge G behind it, and in this particular it is entirely unlike any other clothes-bars which operate in a similar manner so far as I know. It will be advantageous to place metallcwashers between the bars around the pivot, and metallic plates or frictionrollers on the ends of the bars where they rest against the ledges G. Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- Constructing a. folding clothes-rack with bars moving heu'izontally on a single pivot, with the ledges G behind said pivot, which will support said bars in a horizontal position lequally well, whetherpartially or wholly extended, as set forth and described.

In combination with the folding b'ars A, frame 5, pl'ates C D, and pivot E, the ledges G G, as set forth and described.

` F. AA. B(ALCH.

Witnesses:

JNO. E. THOMAS, J. T. BRIDGEMAN. 

